Scientists Are Using Penguin Poop to Understand How Climate Change Is Affecting the Arctic
assimo Rumi/Barcroft Images/Barcroft Media via Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Wired. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Satellites watch many things as they orbit the Earth: hurricanes brewing in the Caribbean, tropical forests burning in the Amazon, even North Korean soldiers building missile launchers. But some researchers have…
Kaiser Clinicians Say Kaiser’s Mental Health Care Is Awful
James Quigg/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In the spring of 2012, Susan Futterman begged the clinicians at Kaiser Permanente in California to change her husband’s treatment. Fred Paroutaud, who at 57 years old was experiencing delusions and bouts of mania, had never experimented with drugs. But after he…
What Does the 2018 Vote Say About 2020?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For some reason I was noodling about the 2020 election today and suddenly wondered what the 2018 congressional results would look like if you converted them to presidential votes. That is, if you look at which party got the highest popular vote in each state,…
Tomorrow’s (Fox) News Today!
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Every once in a while you hear some new crackpot meme—Agenda 21, Pizzagate, “stand down,” etc.—and you wonder what it’s about and where it came from. Usually, though, it’s too much work to figure out the whole bizarro history behind it, so you just shrug…
After Propaganda, Conservative News Was the Most Popular Content Pushed by Russian Trolls
Arriens/NurPhoto/ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Russian internet trolls helped expand the reach of conservative media outlets as part of a Kremlin campaign to influence US politics and sow social discord, according to a new report commissioned by the Senate Intelligence Committee. Conservative content resonated heavily with the trolls’ Facebook…
Study Says Sierra Snowpack Will Drop At Least 50% by 2050
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